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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Bentheim (City of Bentheim) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Black-ground vignette at center with a stylized folk-art figure in robes holding a shield bearing a dotted heraldic device, flanked by the large denomination numerals '50' at left and 'Pf.' at right in bold letterpress. A decorative ribbon banner below reads 'BENT-HEIM' in two sections. Marginal text runs vertically along all four borders, with the issuing authority 'DER MAGISTRAT' inscribed at lower left and a designer's facsimile signature at lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | DREI DINGE GIBT ES HIERZULAND DURCH WELCHE BENTHEIM WEITBEKANNT DER HERRGOTT VON BENTHEIM WOHL TAUSEND JAHR ALT BAD BENTHEIM IM HERRLICHEN EICHENWALD DIE BENTHEIMER MOPPEN DES RUHMES WERT ALS SCHMACKHAFT GEBÄCK BELIEBT UND BEGEHRT |
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Stadt Bentheim issued this note as Notgeld — emergency municipal scrip — during the acute coin shortage that gripped Germany from roughly 1916 onward. Small-denomination Pfennig coinage had effectively vanished from circulation, hoarded or melted, forcing hundreds of towns to print their own stopgap fractional currency. Bentheim's issue is among the more modest examples of this phenomenon: no elaborate artwork, no collector series, just a functional piece filling a gap the Reichsbank was not equipped to address at the local level.
The small physical size is characteristic of Pfennig-denomination Notgeld, where printing economies mattered.